Comparison

Day Planner vs Daybearing

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Day Planner

Manage your day with an intuitive task planner that offers adaptability and clarity. Organize tasks with designated durations using a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface for flexible scheduling. Features include adaptive scheduling, progress tracking, and color-coded tasks for a visually organized day.

Highlights
  • Adaptive scheduling
  • Drag-and-drop interface
  • Tailorable task durations
  • Progress tracking
  • Color coding
  • Dark mode support
Features
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Your to-do list looks manageable. It isn't. Tasks hide how long they take. Time Blokker gives every task a duration and stacks them in your day. You see what fits before you start. Your plans don't fail because of you. They fail because they can't adapt. One thing takes longer, someone calls, lunch runs late, and suddenly your whole afternoon is off. In Time Blokker, tasks sit on top of each other. When one grows, everything below it moves down. Your plan adjusts on its own. Need to shuffle things around? Drag a task somewhere else. Tap the duration to make it shorter or longer. Done. Takes two seconds. That's why you'll actually replan when you need to, instead of giving up on the whole day. And when your priorities take up real space in your day, not just lines on a list, it gets a lot easier to decide what matters. The big stuff looks big. The small stuff looks small. When you finish what you actually planned to do, something changes. You trust tomorrow's plan a little more. And the day after that. No account needed. No subscription. Pay once, it's yours. Your tasks stay on your device. We don't see them, we don't track them. Features: - Drag-and-drop task planning - Tasks shift automatically when your plan changes - Adjustable task durations - Day schedule + task list in one app - Progress tracking throughout the day - Apply schedules to a day - Multi-select and edit - Color coded tasks - Task duplication - Move tasks between lists - Dark mode - No account required - No subscription, one purchase, yours forever - Your data stays on your device

About

Daybearing

Features
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Daybearing is a clock face for your day. Say what you are doing and how long you think it will take. Tasks fill the current hour as you go and turns as you run over — one glance, not a number to read. HOW IT WORKS Type what you want to get done, one task at a time. Tap Start. When you finish a task, tap Complete — and the next task begins. The dial is a real clock face, and your tasks sit on it where they will actually happen. See the plan for the next hour, any planned work beyond that is shown as you mark tasks complete. WHAT THE COLORS MEAN Orange means you are over your estimate but the task is still running — over, and still fixable. It turns red once you complete an overrunning task, because by then the overrun is a fact rather than a situation. The pace chip shows how far ahead or behind your plan you are, green for ahead, red for behind. Three minutes under reads as −3, in green, three minutes ahead of schedule. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO There is no pause. Daybearing shows your work against reality, and time doesn't stop. A timer you can stop measures how long you had it running, not how long the work took. If you need to stop working on something, Set Down ends the session, logs time for the part you actually did, and returns the remainder to the queue. There are no subtasks, tags, categories or statistics screens. No clutter, just what you need to stay on track. PRIVACY No account is required. Your tasks and history are stored locally on your iPhone. There is NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO IN-APP PURCHASE and NO ADVERTISING. You pay once. ALSO IN THE APP • A Live Activity for the running task — on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, on supported Apple Watch and Mac configurations — with a Complete button on the Lock Screen, so you can finish without opening the app. • Lock Screen widgets: how far ahead or behind the day is, the task in hand, and what comes next. • Shortcut support! Ask Siri to start your next task, complete it, add one, or say how you are doing — for the moment your hands are already off the phone. • An optional chime when a task reaches its estimate. • Batch entry for repeated work: set a series of tasks quickly, estimate how long each one will take and how long your want to work on them all. • Save tasks to a plan for later, and group future tasks to make repeatable routines. • Export your whole record as tab-separated text, straight to the clipboard. • Six themes, light and dark. • VoiceOver support and adjustable text sizing. iPhone only in this version. iPad is planned.

Screenshots

Day Planner4 screens
Daybearing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Day Planner at Free against Daybearing's $4.99. Day Planner also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Daybearing's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Day Planner is free to download; Daybearing costs $4.99 up front. Day Planner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daybearing asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Day Planner ships an update every 3 months, Daybearing every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Day Planner versus Daybearing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDay PlannerDaybearing
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB4 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSietse van VlietDustin Glendinning

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Day Planner

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Plus$6.99
None

Daybearing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Day Planner free?
Day Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daybearing free?
Daybearing costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Day Planner or Daybearing have ads?
Neither Day Planner nor Daybearing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Day Planner or Daybearing?
Day Planner ships an update every 3 months, and Daybearing every 5 days. Most recently, Day Planner was updated on October 24, 2026 and Daybearing on October 29, 2026.

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